American Political Culture (T7059)
15 credits, Level 4
Autumn teaching
American political culture is rooted in a shared set of ideals, including liberty, equality, social justice, democracy, and individualism. These are not always realised in practice.
You will explore how electoral politics and the democratic process have been promoted and challenged in American culture. Drawing on a wide range of American Studies methodologies and theories, and offering a cultural-historical approach, you will focus on the subjective side of American politics.
You will examine debates around race, gender, religion, nativism, populism and identity, and how they have been expressed in beliefs, attitudes and cultural practice throughout American history to the age of Trump.
Teaching
100%: Lecture